"La Incondicional" is a pop song

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 written, produced, and arranged by Juan Carlos Calderón and performed by Puerto Rican-born, Mexico-based singer Luis Miguel

Luis Miguel

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. It was released in 1989 as the second single from his studio album

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 entitled Busca Una Mujer

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Busca una mujer, or commonly known as Un Hombre Busca Una Mujer, is an album by superstar Luis Miguel. It was produced by Juan Carlos Calderón, and released in 1988, as the second album released with Warner Music. The first single was "La Incondicional" which spent seven months on the Top Ten of...

and became his second #1 single on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart after "Ahora Te Puedes Marchar" in 1987. The song broke several airplay records in Latin America

Latin America

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 spending seven months at the top of the charts. The success of the song helped push the album to #4 on the Billboard Latin Pop Albums

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 with approximate sales of three million units.

"La Incondicional" won Pop Song of the Year at the Premios Lo Nuestro in 1990. In 2008, VH1 Latin America

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 aired the program entitled The 100 Greatest Songs of the '80s in Spanish which declared "La Incondicional" as the #1 Spanish track of the 1980s.

Chart performance

The song debuted on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart at #32 the week of April 1, 1989. After its first week at #32, it dropped out of the chart for one week but then reentered the following week at #36 and climbed all the way to the Top Ten the week of May 6, 1989. "La Incondicional" reached #1 the week of May 26, 1989, and held this position for seven consecutive weeks (replacing "Como Tú

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" by José José

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 and being replaced by "Baila Mi Rumba

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" by José Luis Rodríguez. "La Incondicional" ranked third in the Hot Latin Tracks Year-End Chart of 1989 and became Luis Miguel's second #1 single in the United States following "Ahora Te Puedes Marchar" which reached #1 two years earlier.

Cover versions

"La Incondicional" has been covered by several performers including the All Stars Big Band, Miguel Angel, Austin, Banda Viejo Oeste, Richard Clayderman

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, Ernesto D'Alessio, Estilo de Durango, Fabian, Florida, Mikel Herzog, Juan Gotti, the Latin Stars Orchestra, the Latin Tribute Players, Edith Márquez, Los Nietos, Nu Flavor

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, La Posta, Emilio Santiago, and Tropical Florida.

Sergio Vargas

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 of the Dominican Republic

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 also recorded a tropical salsa

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 version of the song which was included on his self-titled fourth album. This version peaked at #28 on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart in 1990.

Spanish singer Elsa Ríos included a version of the song on her 2007 album also entitled La Incondicional which was a Juan Carlos Calderón tribute album

Tribute album

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. The album peaked at #61 on the Spanish Album Chart.

Taiwan

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-born, Hong Kong

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-based singer Sally Yeh

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 also recorded a Cantopop

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 version sung in the Chinese

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 language of Cantonese

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.

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